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To: atlaw

It’s not my job to educate you and do the research you won’t do. But since it wasn’t coyness, rather, as I said, charity, I will point you to some areas you might explore at this site: cghs.dadeschools.net/ib_holocaust2001/Ideology_Death/aryanmyth.

Here is the introduction to the article,

“The Aryan Myth: Ideological Backgrounds of the Third Reich

The crisis of the Third Reich was not as radical a distortion of the German state as it might first appear. The intense racism, anti-Semitism, and genocidal action that characterizes Hitler’s rule had been building up among the German people for decades. The acceptance of the German public of Hitler and his government was not irrational, and is not unexplainable. The Third Reich was a culmination of centuries of German history.”

You might also try a few books like, “Biology as Ideology.,Lewontin, Richard. Biology as Ideology. Concord, Ontario: Anasi Press, 1991.

I look forward to hearing the results of your investigations.


87 posted on 03/24/2009 9:40:28 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
And what in my post conflicts in the least with your selected internet essay (which is a rather cursory and limited overview of German "Volk" beliefs)? As the concluding paragraph in your selected essay states:

As for the millions of German people who accepted and supported the Third Reich, they were only the products of their history (Mosse 9). The ferocity of the racism and anti-Semitism that existed in pre-Nazi Germany was sustained by the nature of the German Volkish beliefs. These views had been held by many Germans well before the Third Reich began; they permitted its existence. But the actions of the Reich, the aggressive war of Germany against the people of Europe, was instigated by the political outcomes of the First World War and the fate of the Weimar Republic, and would not have come about with the Volkish and racist sentiments alone.

"Volk" beliefs were themselves integral in German Christianity and in the predominant strains of regional protestantism ("Christian faith is a heroic, manly thing. God speaks in blood and Volk a more powerful language than He does in the idea of humanity." -Joachim Hossenfelder, Bishop of Brandenburg). When coupled with the Church's historical antisemitism (as neatly encapsulated in the writings of Luther), the two formed fertile ground for the antisemitic propaganda of the Nazi party.

This toxic combination of Church and culture is not at all dissimilar to the toxic combination of Mosque and culture being manipulated by propagandists in the Middle East today.

Hence my questions: "[Do] you mean the Germany of 70 years ago? The Germany whose population at the time was manipulated by antisemitic propaganda that appealed to their protestant heritage, much like the middle eastern population today is being manipulated by antisemitic propaganda that appeals to their Islamic heritage? That Germany?"

So, perhaps we can cut to the chase. Exactly what in my post do you disagree with and why?

88 posted on 03/24/2009 11:44:29 AM PDT by atlaw
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